141.2311 Municipal security; registration; facsimile signatures; transfer of ownership; delivery; validity of signature of former officer. Sec. 311. (1) A municipal security may be registrable as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest under terms and conditions determined by the governing body of the issuing municipality. (2) A municipality may authorize a trustee or other authenticating agent to authenticate any municipal security executed by the facsimile signatures of the officials of the municipality in lieu of manual signatures of the officials of the issuing municipality. (3) Officials of a municipality may sign and seal a municipal security in facsimile form if so authorized by the governing body of the issuing municipality. (4) If authorized by the governing body of the issuing municipality, ownership of a municipal security may be transferred by means of a recorded entry in a record maintained by the issuing municipality, trustee, or other agent in lieu of printing and transferring a new municipal security. However, this subsection does not preclude a municipality from the delivery of, and a municipality shall have the authority to deliver, new municipal inting and transferring a new municipal security. However, this subsection does not preclude a municipality from the delivery of, and a municipality shall have the authority to deliver, new municipal securities as evidence of the originally issued municipal security. (5) If an individual acting in an official capacity signs or affixes his or her signature to a municipal security under this act and that individual ceases to be an officer before delivery of the municipal security, the municipal security is valid the same as if the individual had remained in office until delivery of that municipal security. History: 2001, Act 34, Eff. Mar. 1, 2002
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